NME — The Bureau won't be putting out any new Pixies material though more info

Guardian Music — Pixies singer signs former member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band to his new imprint, The BureauPixies' Frank Black has launched a record label, aiming to release his own music as well as "the next big new sexy thing". Initially an imprint for musi... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Total Babes, a quartet from Cleveland, OH, sound like the well-worn 45s that have been gathering dust on the shelves for decades. When Chris Brown and drummer Jayson Gerycz started messing around trying to create a vibe, they fell in step creating ... more info

NME - Radar — FIDLAR! F-I-D-L-A-R! That means "Fuck It Dog, Life's A Risk". Yeah!! Fidlar are from Los Angeles, and they spent the whole of CMJ rolling around stages while off their heads, and generally being more bratty than most other bands allow themselves to ... more info

Guardian Music — Thanks to your herculean efforts this week, we can dust off and put on display a rich list of historical recordsIt's been a week of excavation, a playlist painstakingly pieced together with valuable and neglected fragments covered by millennia of dus... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin There's a lot young people (at shows) just like the old days," Santiago says. "Sometimes you see a parent with, I don't know, a tween kid. You could just see that, you know, it wasn't... more info

Guardian Music — (Virgin)Green's commercially successful debut Alive Till I'm Dead wasn't without its more pensive narratives, and it's in this direction that Hackney battle-rapper-cum-popstar takes his followup. There's the same assortment of polished urban pop beat... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Pixies @ Hammerstein Ballroom in 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Melvin Van Peebles @ Zebulon * Joe Budden @ Highline Ballroom * MINKS, The Rassle, Zaza @ Union Pool * Amon Tobin, Emika @ Brooklyn Masonic... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Following in the footsteps of Pavement, the Pixies and a whole raft of late '80s and '90s bands, the Stone Roses have confirmed that they are reuniting for a 2012 summer tour.Following in the footsteps of Pavement, the Pixies and a whole raft of late... more info

Guardian Music — The boys from Lanarkshire get close to the divine light on their first single from 1990When Teenage Fanclub get it right – not something you can rely on – they can climb to within an A flat major 7th of the sublime. And they are all the more enig... more info